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71-30 in the past 4 seasons…
Posted by: Andrew on January 6th, 2011
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.Since the 06-07 season the Jazz have been very well in the November and sluggish in the December. They look strong and then something just falls off in December, we don’t execute or play defense. The same has happened this year with a 13-3 november record we followed that off with a 10-7 december, something that is less be desired.
But since 06-07 season the Jazz are 71-30 in January and February. Something that I look forward to adding or dominance in those months this year. Last year we started off with 2 losses in January and then sparked a great run 15-2. The Jazz clicked to 100% in the span and we looked like a championship contender during that time, until AK got hurt. Once he went out we played more .500 ball for the rest of season falling to a 5th seed and ultimately losing to LA in round 2.
I think the Jazz will have a great record again, they’ve played 2 months together and have showed we can beat the elite teams. They’ll figure out the slow start issue, even if that means switching up the lineup.
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We’ve beaten just ONE team over .500 in more than a month. Our starters start the game unable to score or defend. Nobody is reallly stepping up like they need to. It doesn’t matter what month it is, the Jazz need to fix their problems in any way possible or we might not even have that “great record.” Honestly, I could care less about the record as long as we can make noise in the playoffs, but considering how we’ve folded to just about any decent team we’ve played lately, that doesn’t look to good either at the moment.
Locke’s blog is an ugly statistical blueprint of what Utah has been doing for a month.
To wit, playing terrible defense. It was about time somebody came into ESA and just blew the Jazz out of their own house, it’s been coming for a while.
Andrew, your stat on January is comforting and there isn’t any reason for this trend to continue. The same lineup was way, way better defensively in October and November, so good it made up for the terrible rebounding effort and bad 1st quarters. They can do it, they just have to make a commitment to getting it done every night.
Well, Last year we were 8-7 in December. I’m not saying we will be dominant in January and February, but we are looking pretty similar to what we did last year (great Nov. Weak Dec. and start off Jan. sluggish) Making noise in the playoffs is something i’d rather have than a great record in the new year, but i would like to have great seeding, it goes hand in hand. Good record (home court advantage) usually goes to the 2nd round or further.
I think the Jazz (starting lineup) will figure things out in the next few weeks. I’m hoping that the Blowout vs. Atlanta was a huge wakeup call and will propel us into dominance (home and road) pushing us close or past a 60 win season.